Saturday, May 31, 2008

Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let's begin.

This week I am showing a pair of shoes times two.

Once, when we were in Paris, we were invited out to dinner by family friends who also mentioned that we would be going to an art opening. Josh warned me that dinner would most likely be a formal affair and I should dress accordingly. I had a little black velvet cocktail dress to wear but the shoes I brought were scuffed. We decided to swing by La Samaritaine and each purchase new dress shoes.

I immediately fell in love with these--they were my first pair of three-inch mary janes.

We walked over from our hotel in St. Germain to their apartment which was about 15 minute walk. By the time we reached their apartment, I was in a small amount of pain from wearing these brand-new three-inch heels, but they suggested that we walk to the art opening instead of hailing a cab since it was a beautiful night. They told us it was by Notre Dame.

So I limped over to Notre Dame, my feet throbbing and a small cut opening underneath my ankle bone where the unbroken shoes were rubbing against bare skin. We passed the church and kept walking. And walking. And walking. And over a half hour after we passed the church, we finally came to this tiny studio where they had mounted a few pictures on the wall and were serving wine in plastic glasses. Josh and I were in so much pain that we could barely breathe.

After ten minutes of small talk with the owners, we left and began walking again to a small Moroccan restaurant nearby. I may not have wanted to show up in jeans, but a casual skirt would have been more than acceptable. I was extremely overdressed for the restaurant. I sat there, trying not to vomit from the pain that was now radiating all the way up my legs. Both ankles were bleeding.

When we left the restaurant, the family friends suggested we walk back since it was such a beautiful evening, but Josh had the good sense to tell them that we would take the metro back to our hotel. We limped back up our street, shoes in hand, not caring if we were walking barefoot through other people's weekend revelry vomit. That was how much pain we were in. It affected the rest of the trip even though we spent the week in sensible shoes and bandaids.

When we got back to America, Josh had a jeweler make me this necklace--a replica of each of our shoes.

We still use the other couple's last name as our personal term for anything that may seem like a good idea at the time but has the potential to bite us in the ass.What are you showing today?

Yes, you...over there in the back row...are you ready? It's your turn...

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can't do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything--a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn't need to contain a picture if you can't get a picture--you can simply tell a story about a single item.

Label your post "Show and Tell" each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don't just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.

Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.

LOVE it! The shoes AND the necklace - what a great memory and way to remember! Josh sounds like a total romantic. **sigh** I love how you came up with your own term for something we all experience in one way or another from time to time.

I don't know how the parisien women do it. they are incredible! I can picture every step of your journey -- so glad josh had the sense to hope the metro back. and I LOVE the memento and the code name! great story!

I'll post my s-n-t later and be back with the link. but I'll tell you right now it won't be as fun a nice (or not so nice) walk down memory lane like yours...

Great story! Sorry about the lack of comments. I was just thinking how I have been commenting my little fingers off and how I miss coming here! I did manage to leave a comment on every blog this week (well except for 57, 84, and 137 - they are protected so I wasn't able to leave a comment there, I hope it still counts!)- and return some more! Since you were first on the list, it has been a while! Just think you are first on the my list yet again! I need to do my show and tell! Be back!

That's a way cool necklace that makes the story all kinds of extra cool. And I hear you on that pain-- I am size 6W, so shoe shopping is always fun, as is breaking in new shoes. Also, my favorite pair of black sandals broke recently, leaving me very very sad on the shoe front.

I am playing again this week: http://wontfearlove.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-and-tell-sunday-time-lapse.htmlThanks for the impetus.

Ooooo so painful - awful!! Sounds slightly similar to my stories about painful shoes! Now I only wear sandals (flipflops daily or dressy sandals for night-time). No more "heel" problems! I never got a beautiful present like you did - what a really sweet hubby!

Count me in another week of S&T.http://alyzabethan.blogspot.com/2008/06/3-word-sunday-show-tell.html

It's not just gorgeous shoes that can do that to you. My walking partner once wore a brand new pair of trainers on our morning walk and a piece of errant plastic under the lining brought up ginormous blisters. She walked in her socks for a while then had to go barefoot. She could not walk for ten days.

I don't know what has me drooling more, shoes..or France. Hmmmm, I just got the cutest pair of sandals and posted a picture of them last week. Maybe I'll have to say shoes make me drool the most. Yes, I have issues I know. But admitting the problem is the first step, right? Hehe :-)

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